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Ralph Rucci is an American fashion designer and artist.[1] He is known in particular for Chado Ralph Rucci, a luxury clothing and accessories line.[2] Rucci's clothing designs have appeared in a number of major exhibitions, and he has won some significant fashion-industry awards. He is the subject of a recent documentary, and he and his clothing have received positive critical response in the fashion press.

Rucci was born and raised in Philadelphia, and holds a degree in philosophy from Temple University. At the age of 21, he moved to New York to study at the Fashion Institute of Technology and later trained under Halston and a Balenciaga patternmaker. He had his first formal show at New York's Westbury Hotel in 1981,[3] but launched Chado Ralph Rucci over a decade later, in 1994, and began showing at New York Fashion Week in 1999. In 2002, Rucci became the first American designer in more than 60 years to be invited to show in Paris by the French Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture (the only other designer to be so honored was Mainbocher),[4] and he showed his haute couture collections in Paris for the next three seasons. He has twice been nominated for the Council of Fashion Designers of America's Womenswear Designer of the Year Award. Rucci is also a painter, who has exhibited in art galleries throughout the U.S.[5]

A front row from which you could pay as much attention to yourself courtesy of the mirrors opposite. Soft feminine looks. Looks to seemed the polar opposite with an almost vampish take on leather pieces and over the knee boots. And all with more than a hint of old, moneyed Europe. But despite such a fusion of elements, it was a sheer mini-skirt that stuck with us at Chado Ralph Rucci's Autumn (Fall) / Winter 2010 catwalk.

Ralph Rucci, a New York City based fashion designer, established his label and independently owned company, Chado Ralph Rucci in 1994. Chado is the name of an ancient Japanese ceremony involving 331 steps for preparing, serving and drinking tea. Hei felt this discipline and attention to details aligned with the philosophy he wanted to pursue in design and view of his work as a life-long learning process involving respect, tranquility, grace and integrity. Rucci does not follow mainstream fashion trends, but works on a steady evolution of his own unique vision.